{"product_id":"glyph","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGlyph\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAli Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593701584\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePantheon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGhosts don't exist. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey don't. End of. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory, however. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is haunting. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything tells it. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs it imaginary? Is it real? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat to do? She phones her sister. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003easks if we're attending to the history that's made us and to the history we're making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003eis about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith's most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Glyph | Ali Smith | Hardcover | 9780593701584 | New | Fiction 1728404","offer_id":49128873984152,"sku":"1728404","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81pzCsfjC0L.jpg?v=1779199365","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/glyph","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}